At 4:45 the car turns down towards Nassau St...on the left just before the plywood hording an old building used as our work canteen for the development of The Blarney Woollen Mills and Office block on the left corner. I was working there as a carpenter when this video was made.....great memories.
The radio playing in the background seems to be Energy 103 with Gareth O Callaghan. This places the video after April 1986 as at that time Energy replaced Radio Nova
Good old days without nanny state when we were not afraid and offended by anything and everything it had it's problems back then for sure but we knew who we are who our neighbours were
How weird to think (if this was summer 85 or so) I was probably playin with my friends just about 200m down the road to the right there... just as the video kicks off!
I loved that music shop, I've been looking to see it for years. The downstairs was all leather jackets and studded belts and Japanese flag things, the essence of hair metal down there. Was it called FM? It's a Carrolls now and I went downstairs a few years ago to see how much of it was the same. You can still just about feel the vibe. I had to leave quickly because security were watching me and I had no credible reason to be down there looking around at the walls.
The fact they were playing 60s nostalgia on the radio when the video was made in 1985, with a rackety babble going on over the radio,spoils the soundtrack a bit. I think this might have worked better as a silent video, or even with a soundtrack of 1985 music (young, raw U2?). 1980's is the Dublin I remember, the good and the bad.
@@dublinpaul1 works great like it is. Real sound. Not some fake track put over it. We can have a quality of car radio back then as well as the traffic sounds, driving sounds of cars at that time, roadworks, ambience. Perfect.
That's the beauty of this video, the sound track is completely authentic as well as everything else. The 60s music on the radio might clash with our mid-80s nostalgia fantasy but it's the messy truth, you heard 60s and 70s music all the time on Dublin radio in 1986 in the same way you'd see older adults wearing 70s jackets and flares, or oul ones dressed straight out of the early 60s. Even if we'd been lucky enough to get some 1986 music on the radio to go with the video, given the timeframe we could have ended up with The Chicken Song.
You got me there! I stand corrected. But my excuse for my mistake is that back in the 80's, the radio was playing 60's "Chicken Song" music. As you say, the messy truth! @@speakertreatz
I think our camera crew just got unlucky with the programme on the station at whatever mad hour of a Sunday the drive was. I remember Energy 106 being a very contemporary station, all the current and chart music most of the time and had it been the previous day we'd have gotten Gerry Lang's soul show which was the latest in (mainly) black music, a very cutting edge show where a lot of the tracks played would end up in the charts a few weeks or months later. But we got unlucky..in one of the best years of the 80s for music, we got a 60s show@@andrewg.carvill4596
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion... I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain...
@@dublinpaul1 Just in case you weren't aware. But it's a great video all the same. Nice bit of real history. No editor deciding an agenda, no setup, just genuine, real, as it happens, life. Perfect. Even the radio captures what those people were listening to then. And I see another comment using the radio sound to help date the filming as well as which radio station was playing even though it would change names/ownership at some point around then. Even more historical information. Great little video.
@@Google_Does_Evil_Now we were just kids messing around with a borrowed video camera which was a big deal at the time, we had no clue it would mean so much to so many one day, between CZcams and fb they have had tens of thousands of views. The tape is in one of many storage containers in my garage, when I get time I'm going to find it and hopefully I'll be able to post better versions one day
NOT many homeless back then , bedsits everywhere , now all the small flats in say phibsborough or north strand are paid for by tax payers and full of non eu migrants who would sleep on the floor rather than work. Dublin is in a catastrophic state
Was thinking that. Remember you used to be able to turn right off Georges St onto dame St. Now you have to turn left and go miles out of your way to get where you want. What a way to reduce traffic congestion and reduce emissions.
@@solsol1624 there were so many little way’s around traffic, through temple bar- which was a total no go zone back in the day. Hard to believe how much it has changed
What rubbish 1950s music !!...This guy was a retro...clod hopper...l was listening to Simple Minds or U2 or David Bowie and others at this time...this was the 1980s...the music was excellent.
God be with the days..when you only had to worry about George Webbs, flecked trouser, pastel jumper, baggy grey leather jacket, ronnie'd up scumbags chasing you on foot, or a gang of them in a Hiace
@@johno1127 they were still going in the 80s when I was in school. The debate was 'which shoes cause the most damage in a fight?' George Webbs either came first, or a close second to Doc Martins
Ahhhh a world without smartphones. ❤❤❤
The most surprising thing here is that as late as the 80s you could still park your car at the side of the road in O'Connell Street.
True and there was a reason to as well
Hey Zak, its rare you bump into someone you know, especially from those days, in the comments sections. Hope all is good.
Dublin as I remember it in my teens 🙂 I hope they are all still alive and well today
I remember asking - unsuccessfully - for a job in that record shop on Westmoreland St - takes me way back to my late teens. Thanks for posting.
Magic. Even after nearly 40 yrs it still looks very familiar. The Georgian architecture standing proud.
what a lovely collection of videos you made,
the nostalgic of it is just fab for anyone who's of a age to remember lovely times.
Glad you enjoyed them, we were just messing around with a borrowed video recorder, never thought it would be interesting and nostalgic one day!
At 4:45 the car turns down towards Nassau St...on the left just before the plywood hording an old building used as our work canteen for the development of The Blarney Woollen Mills and Office block on the left corner. I was working there as a carpenter when this video was made.....great memories.
We were just teenagers messing around with a video camera who never realized these videos would effect so many people in the future!
The radio playing in the background seems to be Energy 103 with Gareth O Callaghan. This places the video after April 1986 as at that time Energy replaced Radio Nova
You might be right, I'll look into it
I thought Vincent Hanley
I remembered watching fab Vinnie in New York with latest music videos!
Good old days without nanny state when we were not afraid and offended by anything and everything it had it's problems back then for sure but we knew who we are who our neighbours were
Not a seatbelt in sight LOL... great vid.
Holy shit that has to be a sunday or holiday feck all traffic at half 5, great vid
Brilliant video well done. All natural
Should be easy enough to figure out the exact date of this video-beautiful sunny day, theres never many of them
How weird to think (if this was summer 85 or so) I was probably playin with my friends just about 200m down the road to the right there... just as the video kicks off!
Back before the NCT test took all the good cars off the road
wow this is great. always love looking at old videos of Dublin . did you move away soon after?
Done the leaving that year great flash back to a great auld Dublin thx
Sunday's down on Camden Lough and market with the punks rockers. Brilliant!
They made a right balls of the middle of O'Connell street but mostly it's great to see only very slight changes of a facade here and there.
Are you blind...they completely fcuking ruined our ENTIRE CITY
I loved that music shop, I've been looking to see it for years. The downstairs was all leather jackets and studded belts and Japanese flag things, the essence of hair metal down there. Was it called FM? It's a Carrolls now and I went downstairs a few years ago to see how much of it was the same. You can still just about feel the vibe. I had to leave quickly because security were watching me and I had no credible reason to be down there looking around at the walls.
Soundcellar?
@@_._________ Yes. I bought patches for my bags and jackets down there. Iron Maiden Powerslave patches and later a Guns and Roses t shirt
Loved it. Got all the grunge stuff there in early 90’s. Guy called Paddy ran it?
When Ireland was still Irish ☘️ ❤
The good oul days.
Still very Irish
@@middler5 what planet are you living on bud?
Piss off you racist cunts. Ireland is still Irish what are you on about.
@@crustyjox The one where I'm surrounded by Irish people.
Great stuff... the bus were double doors..can't remember that🤔😳
They used to go "Ssssss-Blappp!" when the driver opened them!
@@andrewg.carvill4596 and watch your fingers with the "Blapp"!!! :-)
From Morehampton Road to O'Connell Street in a little over 8 minutes? I don't think you'd do this in 2022.
I was 16 in 1985
Me too! Late August
The fact they were playing 60s nostalgia on the radio when the video was made in 1985, with a rackety babble going on over the radio,spoils the soundtrack a bit. I think this might have worked better as a silent video, or even with a soundtrack of 1985 music (young, raw U2?). 1980's is the Dublin I remember, the good and the bad.
That's what was on the radio, on another video I had to remove the 80s music ( simply red and more) for copyrighting reasons
@@dublinpaul1 works great like it is. Real sound. Not some fake track put over it. We can have a quality of car radio back then as well as the traffic sounds, driving sounds of cars at that time, roadworks, ambience. Perfect.
That's the beauty of this video, the sound track is completely authentic as well as everything else. The 60s music on the radio might clash with our mid-80s nostalgia fantasy but it's the messy truth, you heard 60s and 70s music all the time on Dublin radio in 1986 in the same way you'd see older adults wearing 70s jackets and flares, or oul ones dressed straight out of the early 60s. Even if we'd been lucky enough to get some 1986 music on the radio to go with the video, given the timeframe we could have ended up with The Chicken Song.
You got me there! I stand corrected. But my excuse for my mistake is that back in the 80's, the radio was playing 60's "Chicken Song" music. As you say, the messy truth!
@@speakertreatz
I think our camera crew just got unlucky with the programme on the station at whatever mad hour of a Sunday the drive was. I remember Energy 106 being a very contemporary station, all the current and chart music most of the time and had it been the previous day we'd have gotten Gerry Lang's soul show which was the latest in (mainly) black music, a very cutting edge show where a lot of the tracks played would end up in the charts a few weeks or months later. But we got unlucky..in one of the best years of the 80s for music, we got a 60s show@@andrewg.carvill4596
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion... I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain...
jesus hardly any traffic must have been a sunday
I believe it was
haha I knew it
Traffic in the 80s was light enough
Not many had cars ..
Video capture cards and devices exist, in case you're interested. I think they're quite cheap.
I intend to get it digitalized but when I moved a couple of years ago the original VHS went missing. When I find it I'll do the above
@@dublinpaul1 Just in case you weren't aware. But it's a great video all the same. Nice bit of real history. No editor deciding an agenda, no setup, just genuine, real, as it happens, life. Perfect.
Even the radio captures what those people were listening to then. And I see another comment using the radio sound to help date the filming as well as which radio station was playing even though it would change names/ownership at some point around then. Even more historical information.
Great little video.
@@Google_Does_Evil_Now we were just kids messing around with a borrowed video camera which was a big deal at the time, we had no clue it would mean so much to so many one day, between CZcams and fb they have had tens of thousands of views. The tape is in one of many storage containers in my garage, when I get time I'm going to find it and hopefully I'll be able to post better versions one day
Before the godless baby killers we have today
What are you on about?
Yep
@@jimmorrison2657 What are you on about?
@@CuchulainADWhat am I on about? Well I am clearly asking a question, that's what I am on about. A question about the meaning of a bizarre statement.
Interesting revisionist perspective. Magdalene would like to have a word.
No traffic because everyone overseas
Well someones never been inside an automobiel in motion before apparantly.
Transported back to a better life !👍👍👍👍stop the clocks ! Turn back the time ⌚........
I knew it was Frankie Valli. In case anyone wanted to know. No? Oh ☹️
NOT many homeless back then , bedsits everywhere , now all the small flats in say phibsborough or north strand are paid for by tax payers and full of non eu migrants who would sleep on the floor rather than work. Dublin is in a catastrophic state
The lovely South side of Dublin
Jesus how beautiful and clean dublin looks and full of irish. its like a beautiful dream I remember it so well
You should find some way of recording the screen directly rather than taking a video of the video. Excellent video though.
so many lefts and rights that can't be made anymore
Was thinking that. Remember you used to be able to turn right off Georges St onto dame St. Now you have to turn left and go miles out of your way to get where you want. What a way to reduce traffic congestion and reduce emissions.
@@solsol1624 there were so many little way’s around traffic, through temple bar- which was a total no go zone back in the day. Hard to believe how much it has changed
@@bryanmceneaney I've not been in town in years for the reasons we are discussing. Can you drive through temple bar now?
@@solsol1624 kind of. One way system now. Not the same
When Ireland was whyte and beautiful!
Back when Ireland was Irish
What rubbish 1950s music !!...This guy was a retro...clod hopper...l was listening to Simple Minds or U2 or David Bowie and others at this time...this was the 1980s...the music was excellent.
They’re actually 60s tunes if you knew anything
I'm pretty sure we didn't ave many options with the crappy radio I had back then
This is fascinating
Looked like young Trump driving.
Ah yes, before the time off northface, nike tech, canada goose wearing knacker scumbag young lads on their scooters
God be with the days..when you only had to worry about George Webbs, flecked trouser, pastel jumper, baggy grey leather jacket, ronnie'd up scumbags chasing you on foot, or a gang of them in a Hiace
@@speakertreatz George Webbs would have been the 70s
@@johno1127 they were still going in the 80s when I was in school. The debate was 'which shoes cause the most damage in a fight?' George Webbs either came first, or a close second to Doc Martins